Gallery Talk: Frances Bagley | 1:30 p.m.
Jan 25/2025
2001 Flora Street Dallas, Texas 75201
For over four decades, artist and long-time Dallasite Frances Bagley has created a multivalent sculptural language through her objects, installations, and lens-based media. Bagley is a founding member of the feminist collective Toxic Shock, a Dallas-based group of women artists established in 1980 with whom Bagley has made works commenting on gender, politics, and identity. Her practice continues to explore contemporary social issues and dynamics, particularly relating to the gendered body. Often using cast body forms as well as ambiguously feminine signifiers like braided hair or draped fabric, Bagley creates a tension between the figurative and abstract. In recent years, Bagley has begun to incorporate enterable structures in her installations to create an architecture that bridges the viewer’s world and the surreal universe that her organic forms and enchanted objects inhabit. In-person and open to the public. FREE admission with RSVP.